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PS2 Graphics interface sucked if they really would like to make it nice they would implement OpenGL 2.0 clean (no legacy stuff) and stick with the SPU2 this would make people kill the X BOX for sure and get back the living room for SONY
Of course it's the graphics interface, not the games that use it, that make the console. Sure the PS2 had no easy way to do graphics (look at the first-draft games from most companies (The Bouncer, Zone of the Enders) vs. the later ones or ones that used some sort of middleware (MGS2, GTA3, FFX (if you count it as a game and not a series of cinematics separated by rock-paper-scissors battles and some insipid puzzles)), but you might also notice that it came out a year ahead of the competition, allowing it to grab a huge portion of the market (80%). Now, look at the Xbox, which is built around a CPU with 20-year old architecture and has support for DirectX, which makes it an undoubtedly friendlier platform than the PS2's bizarro Emotion Engine and something-else chip.
The only way MS will get a better part of the market with Xbox 2 is to release it before anybody else, which they're pretty well suited to doing. The Xbox was designed in half the time that the GCN was, and although it is less graceful a design, it's certainly made up for it with technical superiority, Halo, and Splinter Cell (SC used the Unreal engine, oddly enough).
What if the hermits' computer components have backdoors that automatically insert backdoors into everything written on them?
You'd have to have sterile hermits manufacturing CDs out of their own feces and urine (sterile) and burning code on them with laser pointers manufactured from the same source with machines made out of (you guessed it!) poop and piss.
Now you know why I hate those filthy asshole hermits.
Just because it isn't in the FAQ doesn't mean it isn't worth thinking about again
No, you shouldn't worry about this shit because EVERY GODDAMN TIME SOMEBODY POSTS A FUCKING LINK THAT GETS SLUGGISH IN THE LEAST (actual or percieved), SOME FUCKING MONGOLIDS NEED TO CHANT THEIR RECURRING CRY OF "SLASHCACHE CACHEDOT RAH RAH RAH."
Goddamn taco-raping Jesus H. Christ jumping up and down on a motherfucking pogo stick. LURK BEFORE YOU POST.
The Kazzzasaazaz installer connects to the FastTrack network to download the actual filesharing program (the functionality in the installer + search + spyware and ads and robot monkeys that confuse your clock cycles for bananas and eat them while throwing monkey poop all over your hard drive). Since the client itself also has built in functionality to display stuff, it would be entirely possible to exploit a buffer overflow bug or something like that that slipped through the probably non-existend QC or some such.
But Kaszzzasdfddsafaszzza is for frat boys, sorostitutes, and pre-teen girls. Real men use FTP or DC++.
Most DDR (Dance Dance Revolution - best arcade game ever) machines also have slots for standard PSX memory cards so you can load the custom steps you make at home on your Playstation to the arcade so you can impress the bitches (by bitches I mean your glow-stick raver friends).
ML-1210 = win. I saved my D&D run with this bitch, running off 24 pages of character sheets in three minutes flat. And that's with the shitty slow official program on Win98.
Normal radio stations aren't charged per listener, simply because you can't count listeners. I'm not sure about fancy satellite radio and stuff like that, though.
At least per-click advertising is better than "maybe people will click, but we have no way of knowing."
I've had crowds gather when I've played Max Payne in the dorm on a Wednesday night. But that's more of a show-off single-player game than exciting multiplayer action.
The console numbers are mostly fluff; nobody judges consoles by bits anymore, and for good reason. Bit numbers aren't as closely tied to real performance as MhZ (which is still not really close, either) and other figures. The XBOX, with a 32-bit CPU, is faster than the Nintendo 64, which had a 64 in the name.
Oh come on. Linux will support whatever those kooky kernel programmers want it to. Hell, I remember a few months ago some article said that AMD already ported it so they could test it, but I haven't got the link handy.
Yeah, I only fire up the DScaler when it's time for some hot hot South Park action, but I never remember because TV isn't as fun as Super Mario Kart in ZSNES. There's an over-done GUI with nice fast code underneath, right there.
What, ATI's annual driver release not good? Say it isn't so!
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Wait a second, this is ATI we're talking about. They're even worse than Creative with drivers, I swear. There was a time when I had to switch between three sets of ATI drivers for Half-Life, UT, and Quake 3, each switch requiring two 3-minute reboots in Windows 98.
The only way to use the TV functions on any ATI card is with an external program. I recommend DScaler, which does some fancy processing to the signal to make it look good enough to eat (unless it's squid day on Iron Chef).
They have systems that allow Diablo II to be played and the software needed to do business at the same time.
It's actually cheaper now to buy a bunch of fast computers than the 486-120s you want everybody to use because that's the only computer your parents keep in the basement for you.
Too bad us former-half-life players have to play with Counter-Strike players now. First Starcraft, now this? I'll stick to Serious Sam, whose dev team is actually extremely helpful to modders.
It was in 98, too - that's how a lot of the *.vbs viruses got spread, because WSH looks at the.vbs file being executed and says, "OH GOLLY! WHAT HAVE WE HERE? IT LOOKS LIKE SOME FUN MALICIOUS CODE. LET'S RUN THIS NOW. GET CRACKING. I AM A BANANA!"
The power of a method of execution is directly proportional to the possibility for disaster. Nobody writes MP3 viruses, because it goes through an extremely limited interpreter. However, x86 machine code is nice and powerful, so you can write some seriously fun viruses for that.
Because people are willing to pay more for SCSI, and the manufacturers don't see a real business need to make them ass-cheap quite yet. That's a shame, because I only have money for IDE drives but I have a spare PCI slot beggin' for a SCSI controller to speed up my legal MP3 downloads of albums I already own on CD. Uh huh.
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The only way MS will get a better part of the market with Xbox 2 is to release it before anybody else, which they're pretty well suited to doing. The Xbox was designed in half the time that the GCN was, and although it is less graceful a design, it's certainly made up for it with technical superiority, Halo, and Splinter Cell (SC used the Unreal engine, oddly enough).
You'd have to have sterile hermits manufacturing CDs out of their own feces and urine (sterile) and burning code on them with laser pointers manufactured from the same source with machines made out of (you guessed it!) poop and piss.
Now you know why I hate those filthy asshole hermits.
because it's lighter than a showerhead?
In other words, it's going to be more than $5, right?
Goddamn taco-raping Jesus H. Christ jumping up and down on a motherfucking pogo stick. LURK BEFORE YOU POST.
But Kaszzzasdfddsafaszzza is for frat boys, sorostitutes, and pre-teen girls. Real men use FTP or DC++.
Most DDR (Dance Dance Revolution - best arcade game ever) machines also have slots for standard PSX memory cards so you can load the custom steps you make at home on your Playstation to the arcade so you can impress the bitches (by bitches I mean your glow-stick raver friends).
Is Elcomsoft responsible for this? If so, I highly respect their programming abilities and their insight into future open-source products.
ML-1210 = win. I saved my D&D run with this bitch, running off 24 pages of character sheets in three minutes flat. And that's with the shitty slow official program on Win98.
At least per-click advertising is better than "maybe people will click, but we have no way of knowing."
If you doubt the infinite wisdom of the US government you're supporting terrorism.
That's the best logo for a linux distribution I've ever seen.
I've had crowds gather when I've played Max Payne in the dorm on a Wednesday night. But that's more of a show-off single-player game than exciting multiplayer action.
We could also make a 1% tax on rap music, NBA products, and Nikes and put it towards welfare and food stamps!
Yeah - I was kind of hoping for a Funny there myself.
If my CPU can become a giant robot that beats up other giant robots, it's all the better.
The console numbers are mostly fluff; nobody judges consoles by bits anymore, and for good reason. Bit numbers aren't as closely tied to real performance as MhZ (which is still not really close, either) and other figures. The XBOX, with a 32-bit CPU, is faster than the Nintendo 64, which had a 64 in the name.
Oh come on. Linux will support whatever those kooky kernel programmers want it to. Hell, I remember a few months ago some article said that AMD already ported it so they could test it, but I haven't got the link handy.
Telling somebody you're going to kill them doesn't make murder legal.
Yeah, I only fire up the DScaler when it's time for some hot hot South Park action, but I never remember because TV isn't as fun as Super Mario Kart in ZSNES. There's an over-done GUI with nice fast code underneath, right there.
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Wait a second, this is ATI we're talking about. They're even worse than Creative with drivers, I swear. There was a time when I had to switch between three sets of ATI drivers for Half-Life, UT, and Quake 3, each switch requiring two 3-minute reboots in Windows 98.
The only way to use the TV functions on any ATI card is with an external program. I recommend DScaler, which does some fancy processing to the signal to make it look good enough to eat (unless it's squid day on Iron Chef).
Too bad us former-half-life players have to play with Counter-Strike players now. First Starcraft, now this? I'll stick to Serious Sam, whose dev team is actually extremely helpful to modders.
The power of a method of execution is directly proportional to the possibility for disaster. Nobody writes MP3 viruses, because it goes through an extremely limited interpreter. However, x86 machine code is nice and powerful, so you can write some seriously fun viruses for that.
Because people are willing to pay more for SCSI, and the manufacturers don't see a real business need to make them ass-cheap quite yet. That's a shame, because I only have money for IDE drives but I have a spare PCI slot beggin' for a SCSI controller to speed up my legal MP3 downloads of albums I already own on CD. Uh huh.